Churchill and Eden Governments 1951 – 55

Churchill and Eden Governments 1951 – 55

Churchill was 77 when he became PM for the second time and in many was he was a figurehead.

health was failing and he was incapacitated by a stroke for months in 1953,

However, his government introduced a number of important developments;

• Rationing was ended.
• Steel industry was denationalised.
• Conservatives committed to building 300 000 new houses a year.
• Labour’s economic policies were accepted.
• Queen Elizabeth II acceded to the throne.
• Britain’s first atomic bomb was detonated.
• Ended the Korean War in 1953

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